“Doesn't he have nice wrists?” Zitao marveled dreamily, staring across campus during their lunch break at the object of her affections- a junior named Park Chanyeol who was taller than Zitao and played the guitar. And had nice wrists.

“What?” Sehun scoffed, looked up from where she was cramming a slice of pizza in her mouth, “His wrists?”

Zitao hummed in confirmation, watching as the older boy easily strummed his guitar and laughed at something one of his friends said.

Sehun glanced over at the picnic table where Chanyeol was situated and made a sound of disapproval.

“That's what you are!” Sehun defended and Jongin tried to behave like she was mad, but she really wasn't fooling anyone. Especially when she let Sehun kiss her, grinning against her lips.

Zitao scrunched up her nose and looked away. As if she needed a reminder that she was single while her two best friends were very much together.

Fortunately, she had a very pleasing sight to focus on while her friends sucked face for the remainder of lunch.

---

“That girl has been blatantly staring at your for the entirety of the lunch period,” Baekhyun told Chanyeol, eating his friend's leftover food.

Chanyeol glanced up and saw the same dark eyed sophomore that he'd been seeing around a lot lately. He was pretty sure she was in his health class, but he wasn't positive since he sat in the front of the room and was basically the only one who ever answered any questions (which he usually incorporated into a joke because he had to stay awake somehow).

Baekhyun rolled his eyes. “Either that or she has a mental disorder...actually, she might have a mental disorder even if she does like you. That would actually explain a lot.”

“Hey!” Chanyeol pouted at his friend and Baekhyun just shrugged unrepentantly.

Chanyeol looked at the girl again, causing her to quickly look away so he wouldn't notice she'd been staring. She was pretty cute, to be honest. He'd always thought so, but never really paid too much attention since he didn't know her. But if Baekhyun was right...

“Yeah, I know,” Chanyeol rolled his eyes, “You've been going on and on about your plans with Lu Han noona for weeks.”

Baekhyun just grinned and turned to watch his senior girlfriend kick a soccer ball around with her friends at the mention of her name.

Just because Baekhyun had Valentine's day plans (for once) didn't mean that Chanyeol had to follow suit.

Still, he found his eyes gravitating back toward the pretty sophomore, catching her staring once again.

Maybe he'd talk to her after all.

---

“Really, you should go talk to him,” Jongin encouraged the next morning, hooking her chin over Zitao's shoulder as the latter looked longingly down the hall to where Chanyeol was standing at his locker.

“What would I even say?” Zitao quietly wailed, “He doesn't even have his guitar now. I can't just go up to him and be like, so I know you play the guitar. Why don't you tell me about that? Most random conversation starter ever.”

“I don't see a problem with it,” Jongin shrugged, “Besides, remember who we're talking about. You have a class with him right? He says the most random things ever. He probably wouldn't even notice that it was a little bizarre.”

Zitao groaned and turned away from watching Chanyeol stare into his locker in bewilderment, like he couldn't figure out what the contraption was for.

“I can't do it!” she exclaimed, “It's too embarrassing!”

“What is?” Sehun asked, sauntering up to the pair with her pink backpack slung over one shoulder and a lollipop in her mouth despite the fact that it was barely eight in the morning.

“Talking to Chanyeol,” Jongin calmly informed her since Zitao was too busy whimpering with her forehead resting against her locker.

“Are we still discussing that?” Sehun complained, holding her candy in one hand so she could press a sticky kiss to Jongin's lips.

“Stop making out,” Zitao mumbled against the wall, “It's too early and I'm having a crisis.”

“You're always having a crisis,” Sehun pointed out, seeming pleased with her observation even though Zitao found it to be wholly inaccurate.

“You don't have to talk to him today,” Jongin assured Zitao, patting her on the back, “But I think that when you do, he'll be really chill about it. No worries!”

Zitao whined and buried her face in her hands. If only it was so easy.

---

Chanyeol approached the pretty sophomore (Zitao, according to Lu Han, who had better be right or he was about to make an ass out of himself) at her locker at the end of the day. He didn't exactly have a game plan, but did he ever? He was just going to roll with it and hope for the best.

“Hey,” he said casually, getting the attention of the three girls standing together.

He recognized the one with the blonde girl hanging off her from his math class, so he sent her a nod before focusing again on Zitao.

The girl's eyes were wide as she looked at him, seemingly surprised to have him addressing her.

“You're Zitao, right?” he pressed on, hoping that she was good surprised and not get-the-hell-away-from-me surprised.

She nodded.

“I'm Chanyeol,” he told her and she nodded again, “Uh...do you want to maybe...I don't know, go to dinner or something?”

He was fidgeting now, unnerved by her lack of response and the way he could feel her friends staring at him.

“Today?” Zitao finally asked and her voice was much softer than he'd expected.

“Yeah, today. Or, you know. Whenever.”

“Today is Valentine's day,” she pointed out, looking confused.

Maybe this was a dumb idea. She could have a boyfriend for all he knew and here he was, asking her out on Valentine's day. Baekhyun was stupid and had stupid ideas.

She fiddled with her uniform skirt and Chanyeol beamed. Mission accomplished.

---

One Month Later

Zitao was seated at the picnic table, hunched over her chemistry homework. She hadn't finished last night since she'd been on the phone with Chanyeol until ten. Even though she had to scramble to get her work done now, she still thought that it was totally worth it.

Currently, having finished his lunch, Chanyeol was playing a soft melody on his guitar and Zitao couldn't help but smile into her homework since she knew he'd written it for her.

“Um...some of us are eating?” Baekhyun said in Sehun and Jongin's direction, looking at the kissing pair like he wasn't sure if he was enjoying the sight of two girls together or grossed out by their unnecessary public displays of affection.

“Don't bother,” Zitao told him, not even having to look up at her friends to know that they hadn't been paying any attention to Baekhyun at all.

Chanyeol and Zitao both glanced up to see an indignant Baekhyun with Lu Han's head resting on his thigh.

Chanyeol snorted, “You're one to talk.”

“You're one to talk,” Baekhyun mocked lamely, but Lu Han laughed anyway. No one was entirely sure whether she was laughing with him or at him. Not even Baekhyun.

But Zitao was too busy reveling in the pleasant butterflies in her stomach from the way Chanyeol was practically wrapped around her to care.

“Here, you were almost right last time,” Chanyeol told her, pointing to the slightly visible numbers that she'd erased, “But there should be three hydrogen, not four.”

Zitao turned her head to the left to look at Chanyeol. “Thanks,” she told him with a smile and he grinned back, right eye disappearing in the way that Zitao found completely endearing.

And not even Baekhyun's loud complaining dampened the way her heart swelled when he leaned down to kiss her.

-Oh my god, het!ChanTao are disgustingly sweet. I was not prepared for this when I started writing OTL Anyway, here's my other (late) Valentine's day "drabble."-Title taken from the Sky Ferreira song Boys.-Comments bring me as much joy as watching Kris attempt to do hip thrusts that involve neither hips nor thrusting.

I was feeling all warm and squishy (which is a rare feeling for me btw - I have a heart of ice according to my friends) and then you mentioned Kris' hip thrusts *slams head on wall* You just had to put that in my head!